Basketball Speed Training Thoughts
We’ve made a perfectly understandable mistake with speed training. That mistake is to attempt to train everyone like track and field athletes. We use the same terms, try the same running mechanics,...
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Agility Pitfalls
Pitfalls with Agility Training Unlike when I started in the strength and conditioning profession, even an entry-level high school strength coach has to have a huge tool kit to address all...
Speed Training: You Don’t Need Frills
Speed is critical to sports performance. One of the side effects of the systematic incorporation of strength and conditioning into sports is that athletes are becoming bigger, stronger and they are a...
Agility Is About Sports Performance
Agility is probably one of the most difficult things to coach and it’s one of the things most susceptible to hype and guruisms. This post is going to present some thoughts about...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Sprinting
There’s a great deal of focus on speed training and sports these days. Obviously it’s an important factor. Many people (and I was one of them) went to the track and field...